I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bot…

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

We do not require elaborate training merely in order to refrain from embarking upon intricate trains of inference. Such abstinence is only too easy.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain,…